Sugar crush : how to reduce inflammation, reverse nerve damage, and reclaim good health / Dr. Richard Jacoby and Raquel Baldelomar.

  • Jacoby, Richard (Physician)
Date:
[2015]
  • Books

About this work

Description

"What Grain Brain did for wheat, this book by a leading peripheral nerve surgeon now does for sugar, revealing how it causes crippling nerve damage throughout the body--in our feet, organs, and brain--why sugar and carbohydrates are harmful to the body's nerves, and how eliminating them can mitigate and even reverse the damage.Sugar Crush exposes the shocking truth about how a diet high in sugar, processed carbohydrates, and wheat compresses and damages the peripheral nerves of the body, leading to pain, numbness, and tingling in the hands and feet, along with a host of related conditions, including migraines, gall bladder disease, and diabetes. If you suffer from ailments your doctors can't seem to diagnose or help--mysterious rashes, unpredictable digestive problems, debilitating headaches, mood and energy swings, constant tiredness--nerve compression is the likely cause. Over the years, Dr. Richard Jacoby has treated thousands of patients with peripheral neuropathy. Now, he shares his insights as well as the story of how he connected the dots to determine how sugar is the common denominator of many chronic diseases. In Sugar Crush, he offers a unique holistic approach to understanding the exacting toll sugar and carbs take on the body. Based on his clinical work, he breaks down his highly effective methods, showing how dietary changes reducing sugar and wheat, coinciding with an increase of good fats, can dramatically help regenerate nerves and rehabilitate their normal function. Sugar Crush includes a quiz to assess your nerve damage, practical dietary advice, and the latest thinking on ways to prevent and reverse neuropathy. If you have diabetes, this essential guide will help you understand the dangers and give you the tools you need to make a difference beyond your doctor's prescriptions. If you have the metabolic syndrome or prediabetes, or are just concerned about your health, it will help you reverse and prevent nerve damage"-- Provided by publisher.

Publication/Creation

New York, NY : HarperWave, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2015]

Physical description

xiv, 240 pages : black and white illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition

First edition.

Contents

This fine sweet mess. The 500-pound canary : a sugar tsunami ; the nerve of it all : how chronic inflammation crashes your miraculous hard wiring ; Killing you softly : the creep of compression ; Slightly diabetic : the metabolic syndrome and its ugly cousins -- The train to nowhere. On track for nerve damage : are your nerves already inflamed? ; The five phases of peripheral neuropathy : heed the clarion call ; Meanwhile, just make it stop : what we suffer to ease the pain -- So now what's stopping you? The sugar addition : #kickingthehabit ; The big fat lie : educated into ignorance ; So then what can you eat? : hot buttered coffee -- My own awakening.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-226) and index.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    Medical Collection
    QU75 2015J17s
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780062348203
  • 0062348205
  • 9780062348227
  • 0062348221
  • 006234823X
  • 9780062348234